I've been trying to find fun things for Little Man to do this summer and found a Junior Explorer class through the Recreation Center. They have one every few weeks at the local Nature Preserve. Today's theme was "Feathered Friends". Our first craft of the day was to make bird watching binoculars! Very cool. We then followed our guide for a nature walk. Didn't see any birds but the Park Ranger pulled up to chat with the kids. On the way back up the trail we saw a snake. Eww Eww! I hate snakes! But what freaked me out is that it coiled up like it was going to bite us so I threw a stick at it to scare it off. It was only about 12 inches long but who knows if it was venomous or not! We were able to scare it off the path before anyone else came along. Once we made it back to the trail-head, we made bird feeders out of pine cones, peanut butter and bird seeds. Little Man kept trying to eat the peanut butter off of the plastic knife and then wanted to take a bite of the pine cone when we were finished. Funny kid!
Our guide showing the kids the craft.
Little Man is in the green hat.
Little Man with his binoculars.
Feathers and a beak to make it look like a bird.
I see you!
Walking along the nature trail.
Park Ranger.
Little Man and his new friend O.
All this walking made me thirsty!
Snake!
Making a bird feeder.
We signed up for a couple of other craft type activities and we can't wait! Little Man really had a good time this morning.
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